Senior Python Developer Job Trends

Senior Python Developer
UK

The median Senior Python Developer salary in the UK is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 April 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 627 605 805
Rank change year-on-year -22 +200 +32
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 88 49 78
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.098% 0.12% 0.082%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.13% 0.086%
Number of salaries quoted 61 30 70
10th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £54,750
25th Percentile £68,500 £64,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £76,250 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% -10.29% +9.68%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,250 £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 83,425 37,731 90,478
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.91% 89.01% 94.54%
Number of salaries quoted 53,614 23,379 66,680
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,860 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

Senior Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Python Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Senior Python Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Senior Python Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Python Developer job vacancies in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Python Developer over the 6 months to 30 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Python Developer in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Python Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -12 81 £80,000 +4.92% 21
London +10 56 £85,000 +9.68% 16
UK excluding London -53 29 £70,000 +7.69% 12
Work from Home +13 23 £80,000 +24.03% 15
North of England - 11 £70,000 - 3
Midlands -27 9 £70,000 +7.69%
Yorkshire - 9 £70,000 -
East Midlands -43 6 £70,000 +7.69%
South East -28 3 £85,000 +36.00% 5
West Midlands - 3 £60,000 -
Scotland - 3 £90,000 -
North West - 2 £85,000 - 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £73,750 - 2
East of England -25 1 - - 1

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 April 2026, Senior Python Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior Python Developer in the job title.

1 88 (100.00%) Python
2 30 (34.09%) AWS
3 29 (32.95%) AI
4 26 (29.55%) Test Automation
5 21 (23.86%) Full-Stack Development
6 20 (22.73%) OO
6 20 (22.73%) OOP
7 19 (21.59%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 19 (21.59%) C++
7 19 (21.59%) Linux
7 19 (21.59%) Low Latency
7 19 (21.59%) Order Management
7 19 (21.59%) Software Engineering
8 16 (18.18%) React
9 14 (15.91%) Flask
10 13 (14.77%) Agile
10 13 (14.77%) Azure
10 13 (14.77%) CI/CD
10 13 (14.77%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (11.36%) JavaScript
11 10 (11.36%) Product Vision
11 10 (11.36%) Resource Allocation
11 10 (11.36%) SaaS
11 10 (11.36%) SDLC
12 9 (10.23%) Django
12 9 (10.23%) Intelligent Automation
13 8 (9.09%) Serverless
14 7 (7.95%) AWS Lambda
15 6 (6.82%) Azure AI
15 6 (6.82%) FastAPI

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.14%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 30 (34.09%) AWS
2 13 (14.77%) Azure
3 10 (11.36%) SaaS
4 8 (9.09%) Serverless
5 7 (7.95%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (6.82%) Azure AI
6 6 (6.82%) GitHub
7 3 (3.41%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (3.41%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.27%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.14%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.14%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.14%) Dagster
9 1 (1.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.41%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.55%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.27%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.14%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 3 (3.41%) GitLab
1 3 (3.41%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.14%) Git
2 1 (1.14%) MLflow
General
1 23 (26.14%) Finance
2 19 (21.59%) Front Office
3 6 (6.82%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.55%) Health Technology
4 4 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (4.55%) Social Skills
5 3 (3.41%) Games
6 2 (2.27%) Publishing
6 2 (2.27%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.14%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (21.59%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 16 (18.18%) React
3 14 (15.91%) Flask
4 9 (10.23%) Django
5 6 (6.82%) FastAPI
5 6 (6.82%) REST
6 5 (5.68%) Vue
7 4 (4.55%) AngularJS
7 4 (4.55%) RESTful
8 3 (3.41%) HTML
8 3 (3.41%) Node.js
9 2 (2.27%) NumPy
9 2 (2.27%) Pandas
9 2 (2.27%) Swagger
10 1 (1.14%) OAuth
10 1 (1.14%) OAuth2
10 1 (1.14%) OpenCV
10 1 (1.14%) pytest
10 1 (1.14%) SQLAlchemy
10 1 (1.14%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 21 (23.86%) Algorithms
2 19 (21.59%) Data Structures
2 19 (21.59%) Equities
2 19 (21.59%) Hedge funds
2 19 (21.59%) Management Information System
3 18 (20.45%) Cloud Native
4 15 (17.05%) Educational Technology
5 10 (11.36%) PropTech
6 4 (4.55%) NHS
7 3 (3.41%) Low-Code
7 3 (3.41%) Video\Live Streaming
8 2 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.27%) Product Ownership
9 1 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 19 (21.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (32.95%) AI
2 26 (29.55%) Test Automation
3 21 (23.86%) Full-Stack Development
4 20 (22.73%) OO
4 20 (22.73%) OOP
5 19 (21.59%) Low Latency
5 19 (21.59%) Order Management
5 19 (21.59%) Software Engineering
6 13 (14.77%) Agile
6 13 (14.77%) CI/CD
6 13 (14.77%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (11.36%) Product Vision
7 10 (11.36%) Resource Allocation
7 10 (11.36%) SDLC
8 9 (10.23%) Intelligent Automation
9 6 (6.82%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (5.68%) DevOps
10 5 (5.68%) Event-Driven
10 5 (5.68%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 5 (5.68%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 88 (100.00%) Python
2 19 (21.59%) C++
3 10 (11.36%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.55%) SQL
5 3 (3.41%) Go
6 2 (2.27%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.14%) Bicep
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.55%) QA
2 1 (1.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (3.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.41%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.27%) Terraform
3 1 (1.14%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (6.82%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.14%) Databricks